By an extension of its use in resolve, exhortation, command and prohibition, the imperative mood may be employed for less peremptory expressions, such as request , wish , advice , etc., and in questions of deliberation or perplexity , or requests for instruction : -----------------------------220.png----------------------------
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

In it was an entry of 1668, which ran in this wise:— “This is the portion of Rates each Chapelry and Prebend shall pay towards the repairs of the Mother Church:—
— from The Annals of Willenhall by Frederick William Hackwood

And as Bering, by the ambiguity of his journal, gave color to the idea that he had rounded East Cape and pursued the north coast west of it for a few hours before turning homeward, what more natural than that those little acquainted with the region should speak of his turning back from near Serdze-Kamen?
— from The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. II., No. 2, May, 1890 by Various

The keys of Azoph, which had been so long withheld from the basha, who was to have taken possession of that place for the sultan, his master, were now given up; and, notwithstanding all the endeavours of the king of Sweden, the intrigues of his friends at the Ottoman Porte, and even some menaces of a new war on the part of the Turks, both that nation and the Russian empire continued at peace.
— from The History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia by Voltaire

The Rättvikians excel chiefly as painters, and they cover the walls of their houses with paintings instead of putting up hangings.
— from Peeps at Many Lands: Sweden by William Liddle

Porter's irrelevant simile caused Allis to start, and Crane's relentless eyes came and peeped at her through the narrow-slitted lids.
— from Thoroughbreds by William Alexander Fraser

The opera lovers among the stockholders reorganized the company under the style of the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company, and purchased the building under foreclosure proceeding for $1,425,000, then raised $1,000,000 by a bond issue, and the summer of 1893 was devoted to a restoration of the theater, an agreement having also been reached for a new lease to Mr. Abbey and his associates.
— from Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time by Henry Edward Krehbiel

For this reason every college and Page 27 [27] high-school for women should have a well-instructed woman professor, whose duty it shall be to instruct young women (in the last years of their education) in all they need to know as wife, mother, nurse, and guardian of infancy and childhood.
— from Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator, with Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage by Catharine Esther Beecher

With much reason, English citizens are proud of the fact that their Empire is the result of a NATURAL GROWTH .
— from England, Canada and the Great War by L. G. (Louis Georges) Desjardins

et des éditions imprimées par les Aldes, les Elzevirs, Tonson, Cominus, Baskerville, Barbou, Didot, Herhan, etc., etc.... Seconde Édition, revue et considérablement augmentée; Par Fr.
— from A Bibliography of Bibliography; Or, a Handy Book About Books Which Relate to Books by Joseph Sabin